Storage battery.



B..F0R`D.

STORAGE BATIERY.

v .APPLICATION FILED APR. 24. 19H5.4

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Arnau/EY Patented June 19, 1917.

' BL FORD.

'STORAGE BATTERY. APPLICATIQN FILED APR. 24, |916.

- Patented June 19', I1917'.

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BRUCE FORD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

STORAGE BATTERY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1917.

Application filed Apri1l2'4, 1916. Serial No. 93,088.

T o all whom t may concern.:

Bc it known that I, BRUCE FORD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Storage Batteries, of which .the following is a specification.

The principal objects of the present construction of storage batteries of the genv than the positive terminal posts. Inter-cell eral type that are frequently used in vehicles, and to provide Storage batteries which are adapted for universal use in vehicles and the like.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description, in which reference will be made to the accompanying drawings, forming'part hereof, and in which- Y Figure l, is a top or plan view of a storage batteryembodying features of the invention.

. Fig. 2, isa side parts broken away.

Fig. 3, ,is a transverse sectional view of the same, and

Fig. 4 a plan,l and Fig. 5,.,an edge View' illustrating a modification.

view of the same with Referring to the drawings a storage bat-- tery of the present invention consists ofa plurality of cells l, 2, and 3, three cells are shown in the present instance but the number can be increased. The positive terposts 4 'of all the cells are alike size and form and the negative. terminal the positive terminal posts. The terminal posts of all the cells are cylindrical and preferably slightly tapering, but the negative terminal posts are of different diameter connectors 6 are integrally vburned'to the posts which they connect. Oneway of accomplishing this is to drive 'the terminal posts into suitable holes in the connectors in-. vention are tosimplify and cheapen, thev vas described.

posts and openings in the connectors for U theirreception it is made easy to connect up the cells in proper manner. '7 are line Connections for the end cell terminal posts.

They areconnected with the line wires or conductors 8 and arev detachably connected to theposts. As shown they encircle the post an'd are capable of being placed in any required angular relation andare fastenedy and unfastened by bolts and nuts 9. These line connections may be straight, as shownv one direction'- or another.

.It is evident that each cell is a duplicate of the other, so far as the terminal posts are concerned, and this is a matter of importance in convenience both'of manufacl ture and assemblage. Again the provision ofthe integrally burned. inter-cell connectors 6 insures a certain and` positive connection, is inexpensive and avoids corrosive VThe provisionV of the detachable effects. line connections vmakes the battery`realily applicable .for installation in connection with practically any system of vehicle wiring and so thev battery is universal inits application to vehicles and like structures of allmakes.

What I claim is v l. A storage batteryconsisting of a pluralityjof cells having terminal posts, the .posts of like polarity of end and inter'- medate cells being alike, intermediate con-v nectors integrally burned at` each*V end to posts of different cells, and line connectors detachably .clamped to one terminal post of each endv cell.

ralit'y of cells having -intercell'connections burned at each end tothe posts of cells and having end cellv terminals consisting of posts, in combination with connectors forming part of lines and adapted to`be detachably clamped to the postsl of end cells in different radial positions,l substantially BRUCE FORD. 

